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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, 86% of people who identify as Republicans still support Trump, but the overall number of people who identify as Republicans has dropped significantly since the 2016 election.

That isn't factored into the equation.[/quote]

The number of independents are growing and they are coming from both parties. For example, I have voted consistently Democratic for decades but now I register as an independent because both parties are just ridiculously polarized. Whether I vote for a Democrat in 2020 will depend on who is nominated.[/quote]

Because your default is...Trump?[/quote]

More precisely I don't have a default. It used to be the Democrat in most races but the mindless partisanship on both sides is so out of control that it makes no sense to vote Democrat irrespective of the candidate. Whether it is for House, Senate or presidential elections, the candidate has to "earn" my vote.[/quote]

Oh my whatever. Stop with your nonsense and please read "It's Even Worse Than It Looks" - written by two centrist political scientists, both who engaged in a fair degree of whataboutism for years, and who finally admit that the GOP has taken a significant right-ward pivot, especially over the last ten years.  They describe the GOP as an insurgent outlier, contemptuous of facts and scornful of compromise as well as dismissive of the legitimacy of its opposition.

We're Democrats, not door mats.  At some point, people will push back.  [/quote]
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I’m so tired of people like the PP who clearly fancy themselves above everyone else. Congrats, you’re a cog just like the rest of us and the machine can go one of two ways. One of those ways rolls toward authoritarianism, reduced rights for anyone not white, Christian and male and away from democracy. The other side rolls toward democracy, equal rights for all and progress. There is no “both sides.” If you vote for the GOP you are not a good person, full stop, no matter how much faux soul searching you engage in.[/quote]

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